Common Ground with…Jordan Kennedy

Jordan Kennedy is the founder of Wisconsin Diversity Leaders for Tomorrow, a Madison-based nonprofit that works to provide diverse and underrepresented groups of students with resources and opportunities to support their journeys in career and identity exploration. The organization started as a University of Wisconsin–Madison student group and now has developed into a community-based one that hosts meetings to offer students leadership training, meetings with potential employers, diverse mentorship, and other networking and volunteer events. The group’s mission explains its goal to connect underrepresented students with the tools to “break into and thrive within the most selective industries and companies in the world,” like Redbird, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and others....
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